Annual Reports
Archived record of temperature and salinity measurements for each year collected at shoreline stations along the California coast from La Jolla to Trinidad. Monthly means and extreme values are tabulated for each month and station. The data are also shown in plots alongside a climatological mean using all data for each station.
Publications
2022
Southern California winter precipitation variability revealed by 100-year ocean salinity record
Of Sea and Smoke: Evidence of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter Deposition from 2020 Western United States Wildfires
Coward, E. K., Seech, K., Carter, M. L., Flick, R. E., & Grassian, V. H. (2022). Of Sea and Smoke: Evidence of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter Deposition from 2020 Western United States Wildfires. Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 9(10), 869–876. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00383
2021
Episodes of high recruitment buffer against climate-driven mass mortality events in a North Pacific seabird population
Johns, M. E., Warzybok, P., Jahncke, J., Doak, P., Lindberg, M., & Breed, G. A. (2021). Episodes of high recruitment buffer against climate-driven mass mortality events in a North Pacific seabird population. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(2), 345–355. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13630
Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) migration timing driven by estuary outflow and sea surface temperature in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, California
Goertler, P., Mahardja, B., & Sommer, T. (2021). Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) migration timing driven by estuary outflow and sea surface temperature in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, California. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80517-5
Citizen-sourced sightings and underwater photography reveal novel insights about green sea turtle distribution and ecology in Southern California
Hanna, M. E., Chandler, E. M., Semmens, B. X., Eguchi, T., Lemons, G. E., & Seminoff, J. A. (2021). Citizen-sourced sightings and underwater photography reveal novel insights about green sea turtle distribution and ecology in Southern California. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.671061
Spatial and temporal variations in Synechococcus microdiversity in the Southern California coastal ecosystem
Nagarkar, M., Wang, M., Valencia, B., & Palenik, B. (2021). Spatial and temporal variations in Synechococcus microdiversity in the Southern California coastal ecosystem. Environmental Microbiology, 23(1), 252–266. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15307
A closer look at power-law scaling applied to sea surface temperature from scripps pier using empirical mode decomposition
Breaker, L. C., & Carroll, D. (2021). A closer look at power-law scaling applied to sea surface temperature from scripps pier using empirical mode decomposition. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 38(4), 777–787. https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0124.1
Time lags: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
Spatial and temporal variations in Synechococcus microdiversity in the Southern California coastal ecosystem
2020
Causality analysis of climate and ecosystem time series
Sefidmazgi, M. G., & Sefidmazgi, A. G. (2020). Causality analysis of climate and ecosystem time series. Evaluating Climate Change Impacts, 139–162. PDF
A century of Southern California Coastal ocean temperature measurements
Rasmussen, L. L., Carter, M. L., Flick, R. E., Hilbern, M., Fumo, J. T., Cornuelle, B. D., Gordon, B. K., Bargatze, L. F., Gordon, R. L., & McGowan, J. A. (2020). A century of Southern California coastal ocean temperature measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015673
Contextualizing marine heatwaves in the Southern California Bight under anthropogenic climate change
Fumo, J. T., Carter, M. L., Flick, R. E., Rasmussen, L. L., Rudnick, D. L., & Iacobellis, S. F. (2020). Contextualizing marine heatwaves in the Southern California Bight under anthropogenic climate change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015674
Decadal variability in twentieth-century ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem
Osborne, E. B., Thunell, R. C., Gruber, N., Feely, R. A., & Benitez-Nelson, C. R. (2020). Decadal variability in twentieth-century ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem. Nature Geoscience, 13(1), 43–49. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0499-z
Benthic Heterobranch Sea Slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Santa Barbara County, California I. Review of the literature, and Naples Point, 2002-2019
2019 and Earlier
Breaker, L. C. (2019). Long-range persistence in sea surface temperature off the coast of central California. Journal of Ocean and Climate: Science, Technology and Impacts, 9, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1759313118791113
Mcgowan, J. A., Deyle, E. R., Ye, H., Carter, M. L., Perretti, C. T., Seger, K. D., De Verneil, A., & Sugihara, G. (2018). Predicting coastal algal blooms in southern California. Ecology, 98(5), 1419–1433. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1804
García-Reyes, M., & Sydeman, W. J. (2017). California Multivariate Ocean Climate Indicator (MOCI) and marine ecosystem dynamics. Ecological Indicators, 72, 521–529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.08.045
Tommasi, D., Stock, C. A., Pegion, K., Vecchi, G. A., Methot, R. D., Alexander, M. A., & Checkley, D. M. (2017). Improved management of small pelagic fisheries through seasonal climate prediction. Ecological Applications, 27(2), 378–388. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1458
Bellquist, L. F., Graham, J. B., Barker, A., Ho, J., & Semmens, B. X. (2016). Long-Term Dynamics in “Trophy” Sizes of Pelagic and Coastal Pelagic Fishes among California Recreational Fisheries (1966–2013). Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 145(5), 977–989. https://doi.org/10.1080/00028487.2016.1185035
Skern-Mauritzen, M., Ottersen, G., Handegard, N. O., Huse, G., Dingsør, G. E., Stenseth, N. C., & Kjesbu, O. S. (2016). Ecosystem processes are rarely included in tactical fisheries management. Metroeconomica, 67(3), 165–175. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12111
Hubbell, M. (2016). El Niño, climate change and record high sea surface temperatures at the Scripps Pier. In Senior Project Research Paper.
Obaza, A., Hoffman, R., & Clausing, R. (2015). Long-term stability of eelgrass fish assemblages in two highly developed coastal estuaries. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 22(3), 224–238. https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12119
Kim, S. Y., & Cornuelle, B. D. (2015). Coastal ocean climatology of temperature and salinity off the Southern California Bight: Seasonal variability, climate index correlation, and linear trend. Progress in Oceanography, 138, 136–157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.08.001
Ye, H., Deyle, E. R., Gilarranz, L. J., & Sugihara, G. (2015). Distinguishing time-delayed causal interactions using convergent cross mapping. Scientific Reports, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14750
Matthews, J. B., & Matthews, J. B. R. (2014). Physics of Climate Change: Harmonic and exponential processes from in situ ocean timeseries observations show rapid asymmetric warming. Journal of Advances in Physics, 6(2), 1135–1171. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275335025
Ebert, T. A. (2014). Temporal changes in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus along the west coast of North America. In Climate change perspectives from the Atlantic: Past, present and future (pp. 443–460). Universidad de La Laguna. PDF
Checkley, D. M. J., & Lindegren, M. (2014). Sea surface temperature variability at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography pier. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 44, 2877–2892. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-0225.1
Miller, E. F., & McGowan, J. A. (2013). Faunal shift in southern california’s coastal fishes: A new assemblage and trophic structure takes hold. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 127, 29–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.04.014
Seubert, E. L., Gellene, A. G., Howard, M. D. A., Connell, P., Ragan, M., Jones, B. H., Runyan, J., & Caron, D. A. (2013). Seasonal and annual dynamics of harmful algae and algal toxins revealed through weekly monitoring at two coastal ocean sites off southern California, USA. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 20(10), 6878–6895. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-012-1420-0
Lindegren, M., & Checkley, D. M. (2013). Temperature dependence of pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) recruitment in the California current ecosystem revisited and revised. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 70(2), 245–252. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2012-0211
Carson, H. S., López-Duarte, P. C., Cook, G. S., Fodrie, F. J., Becker, B. J., DiBacco, C., & Levin, L. A. (2013). Temporal, spatial, and interspecific variation in geochemical signatures within fish otoliths, bivalve larval shells, and crustacean larvae. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 473, 133–148. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10078
Walker, B. D., & McCarthy, M. D. (2012). Elemental and isotopic characterization of dissolved and particulate organic matter in a unique California upwelling system: Importance of size and composition in the export of labile material. Limnology and Oceanography, 57(6), 1757–1774. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2012.57.6.1757
Sugihara, G., May, R., Ye, H., Hsieh, C. H., Deyle, E., Fogarty, M., & Munch, S. (2012). Detecting causality in complex ecosystems. Science, 338(6106), 496–500. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1227079
Santos, F., Gomez-Gesteira, M., deCastro, M., & Alvarez, I. (2012). Differences in coastal and oceanic SST trends due to the strengthening of coastal upwelling along the Benguela current system. Continental Shelf Research, 34, 79–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2011.12.004
Iles, A. C., Gouhier, T. C., Menge, B. A., Stewart, J. S., Haupt, A. J., & Lynch, M. C. (2012). Climate-driven trends and ecological implications of event-scale upwelling in the California Current System. Global Change Biology, 18(2), 783–796. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02567.x
Moore, R. H., Miller, E. F., & Love, M. (2011). Southern occurrence of the sand sole (Psettichthys melanostictus). Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences, 110(3), 184–188. https://doi.org/10.3160/0038-3872-110.3.184
Miller, E. F., Pondella, D. J., Beck, D. S., & Herbinson, K. T. (2011). Decadal-scale changes in southern California sciaenids under different levels of harvesting pressure. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68(10), 2123–2133. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsr167
Washburn, L., Fewings, M. R., Melton, C., & Gotschalk, C. (2011). The propagating response of coastal circulation due to wind relaxations along the central California coast. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 116(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JC007502
Pardo, P. C., Padín, X. A., Gilcoto, M., Farina-Busto, L., & Pérez, F. F. (2011). Evolution of upwelling systems coupled to the long-term variability in sea surface temperature and Ekman transport. Climate Research, 48(2–3), 231–246. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr00989
Llovel, W., Meyssignac, B., & Cazenave, A. (2011). Steric sea level variations over 2004-2010 as a function of region and depth: Inference on the mass component variability in the North Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 38(15). https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL047411
Chang, G., & Twardowski, M. S. (2011). Effects of physical forcing and particle characteristics on underwater imaging performance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 116(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JC007098
Litzow, M. (2010). Four decades of climate-biology covariation in Alaskan and North Pacific ecosystems: an ecosystem indicator approach.
Parnell, P. E., Miller, E. F., Lennert-Cody, C. E., Dayton, P. K., Carter, M. L., & Stebbins, T. D. (2010). The response of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) in southern California to low-frequency climate forcing. Limnology and Oceanography, 55(6), 2686–2702. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2010.55.6.2686
Santoro, A. E., Nidzieko, N. J., Van Dijken, G. L., Arrigo, K. R., & Boehm, A. B. (2010). Contrasting spring and summer phytoplankton dynamics in the nearshore Southern California Bight. Limnology and Oceanography, 55(1), 264–278. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2010.55.1.0264
Sydeman, W. J., & Thompson, S. A. (2010). The California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA), Module II: Trends and variability in climate-ecosystem state. www.faralloninstitute.org
McClatchie, S., Goericke, R., Auad, G., & Hill, K. (2010). Re-assessment of the stock-recruit andtemperature-recruit relationships for Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 67(11), 1782–1790. https://doi.org/10.1139/F10-101
Breaker, L. C., & Welschmeyer, N. A. (2010). Detecting, characterizing and determining the biological response to regime shifts off the California coast. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9296c41b
Llovel, W., Guinehut, S., & Cazenave, A. (2010). Regional and interannual variability in sea level over 2002-2009 based on satellite altimetry, Argo float data and GRACE ocean mass. Ocean Dynamics, 60(5), 1193–1204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-010-0324-0
Lluch-Cota, S. E., Parés-Sierra, A., Magaña-Rueda, V. O., Arreguín-Sánchez, F., Bazzino, G., Herrera-Cervantes, H., & Lluch-Belda, D. (2010). Changing climate in the Gulf of California. Progress in Oceanography, 87(1–4), 114–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2010.09.007
Mazur, L., Milanes, C., Randles, K., & Siegal, D. (2010). Indicators of climate change in California: environmental justice impacts. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. PDF
Norton, J. G., Herrick, S. F., & Mason, J. E. (2009). Fisheries abundance cycles in ecosystem and economic management of California fish and invertebrate resources. In The Future of Fisheries Science in North America (pp. 227–244). Springer. http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/
Breaker, L. C., & Flora, S. J. (2009). Regime shifts in sea-surface temperature off Southern California and Hawai’i. Pacific Science, 63(1), 39–60. https://doi.org/10.2984/1534-6188(2009)63[39:EOARSI]2.0.CO;2
Gelpi, C. G., & Norris, K. E. (2008). Seasonal temperature dynamics of the upper ocean in the Southern California Bight. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 113(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JC003820
Breaker, L. C. (2008). Corrigendum to “A closer look at regime shifts based on coastal observations along the eastern boundary of the North Pacific” [Continental Shelf Research 27 (2007) 2250–2277]. In Continental Shelf Research (Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 503–504). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2007.10.003
Stammer, D., Park, S., Köhl, A., Lukas, R., & Santiago-Mandujano, F. (2008). Causes for large-scale hydrographic changes at the Hawaii Ocean time series station. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38(9), 1931–1948. https://doi.org/10.1175/2008JPO3751.1
Blanchette, C. A., Melissa Miner, C., Raimondi, P. T., Lohse, D., Heady, K. E. K., & Broitman, B. R. (2008). Biogeographical patterns of rocky intertidal communities along the Pacific coast of North America. Journal of Biogeography, 35(9), 1593–1607. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01913.x
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Mckinnell, S. M., & Crawford, W. R. (2007). The 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and surface temperature variability in the northeast Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 112(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006JC003671
Breaker, L. C. (2007). A closer look at regime shifts based on coastal observations along the eastern boundary of the North Pacific. Continental Shelf Research, 27(17), 2250–2277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2007.05.018
Kim, H. J., & Miller, A. J. (2007). Did the thermocline deepen in the California current after the 1976/77 climate regime shift? Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37(6), 1733–1739. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO3058.1
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Breaker, L. C. (2006). Nonlinear aspects of sea surface temperature in Monterey Bay. Progress in Oceanography, 69(1), 61–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2006.02.015
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